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gracie mae bradley

@graciemaybe.bsky.social
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writer, doctoral scholar // Against Borders (Verso, 2022) // civil liberties bod // www.graciemaebradley.com ig:@/inrelativeopacity

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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
i spoke to @lbc.co.uk this evening on ID systems, given that a 2021 quote of mine has done the rounds this week. starmer's proposal would most likely function as a massive population database, backed by biometric surveillance. wouldn't deal with undocumented migration, would make us all less free.
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
i'm infuriated by those who argue that "woman" is a safe space into which cis women can retreat from the depredations of the world. solidarity with my trans friends and with everyone else working for a feminism made to the measure of the world. inrelativeopacity.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There are no safe categories
I am infuriated by last week's Supreme Court ruling, and by the stance of those who argue that "woman" is a safe space into which cis women can retreat from the depredations of the world.
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"It's not just about doing political work with people that we're not friends with, it's also about doing political work for or in solidarity with people that we're not actually that keen on." The brilliant @graciemaybe.bsky.social interviewed in our latest blog post: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Angels, fellow travellers, & friendship on the move
An interview with Gracie Mae Bradley
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
glasgow, i'll be in conversation at @thecommonguild.bsky.social on 24th April with Hannah Proctor, thinking in response to Steve McQueen's 'Grenfell' on the role art can play in memorialisation: thecommonguild.org.uk/programme/li...
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Library Session / Gracie Mae Bradley and Hannah Proctor — THE COMMON GUILD
Following the recent screening of Steve McQueen’s ‘Grenfell’ in Glasgow, this session brings together perspectives on how art can act as a memorial, support visibility, and make demands for justice. S...
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
fwiw this is what Luke and i reflected on 'identity politics' in Against Borders, following our discussion of digital ID, databases and algorithms
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
i have no idea what blusky does with substack links, or if there are many literature people on here, but in case there are, a new post from me, on turning the year and my creative process: inrelativeopacity.substack.com/p/turning-th...
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Turning the year
I fell asleep to the beating wind, asking myself: is this what I resolved to use this time for?
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Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Reading "Against Borders" by @graciemaybe.bsky.social & L de Noronha. Loving it. Thought provoking, compelling, inspirational. I recommend it to anyone interested in anti-racism, migration, intersectional justice - whether abolitionism is your cup of tea or not www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
glasgow // london folk: i’m doing a couple of events next week with Goldsmiths and the inimitable Mount Florida Books, see you there
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
mine and Minnie’s collective analysis of the borders bill 👇🏾- unimpressed, but there are opportunities
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/12/2024
Khaled 'Abu Diaa' Nabhan, a Palestinian man who moved many last year while saying goodbye to his killed three-year-old granddaughter, Reem, has been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/l31q2z
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
some victims of the cyclone in Mayotte were afraid to come forward for support because they thought it could lead to their deportation. we've heard this time and again under the UK's hostile environment & we'll hear it more globally as climate breakdown worsens. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors
Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
disgraceful but no surprise to read that Britain's protest crackdown legislation has inspired other nations. this government should be rolling back the legislative excesses of its predecessors, and defending the freedom to protest: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
sheltering from the storm today! an energising discussion on the UK migrant solidarity movement’s wins, and how we take on this government’s hostility. many of the insights in Against Borders still ring true: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... thank you for having me @amnestyuk.bsky.social ✨
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
i'm prepping notes for my @amnestyuk.bsky.social talk this weekend on what it means for the migrants' rights movement to win, and i realise that one of the many effects of the last govt's escalating violence towards migrants has been to suppress movement memory of relatively recent wins
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
delightful times @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Bookfair with Leah Cowan on thinking, writing and organising towards flourishing futures 💫
two people - one in a green cardigan and one in a zebra print jumper signing books - Why Would Feminists Trust the Police and Border Abolition Now!
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gracie mae bradley @graciemaybe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
advance warning that my posts are likely to be infrequent, and on the subject of books, civil liberties, philosophy and my dreams (this week i dreamed Gordon Brown had marseille hex tiles in his kitchen...) BUT let's give this place a go
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